Garment protector



1933- E.- I. ABBOTT 1,897,100

GARMENT PROTECTOR Filed Aug. 22,. 1932 INVENTOR ATTORNEYS i Patented Feb. 14, 1933 UNITED STATES EDNA IONE ABBOTT, OF TIFI IN, OHIt) GARMENT PROTECTOR Application filed August 22, 1932.: Serial No. 629,833.

This invention relates to means for use by women in putting on and taking off garments whose nature requires that these operations be by way of the wearers head.

The principal objects of the invention are two-fold. From the standpoint of the wearer an object is that the coiflure and cosmetic make-up be undisturbed by the garment as the latter is donned or removed. Frqm the standpoint of the garment or its owner, the neck part of the garment is protected against soiling during these operations.

More particularly the objects of the invention are to accomplish such purposes by simple and inexpensive means at a minimum inconvenience to the wearer.

Further objects and advantages will be apparent from the following description taken in connection with the drawings which. are

perspective views, Fig. 1 showing a device. embodying ,the invention; Fig. 2 illustrating the device as applied to the wearer while the garment is being put on or removed; and Fig. 3 showing the same device upon the wearer as after the garment has been put on and its effect on the wearer is being observed.

With reference now to the drawings, the device comprises three principal parts general-.

ly identified as a hood or bonnet part 1, an apron part 2 and apane part 3. The parts are of light flexible sheet material having transparency, which may be bound by tape or.

the like as indicated at 4. A suitable material is uncolored cellophane or the like which has perfect transparency and hence least alters the appearance of the wearer of the device. Another suitable material is netting which has the advantages of being Washable and permitting ventilation, and does not disturb the hearing of the wearer.

The hood 1 is shaped to fitthe head of the average wearer, loosely enough to include the coifiure without disarranging it. It is open at thefront and of course at the bottom and otherwise may be closed or continuous, al-

though if of solid material might be provided with openings at the sides so as not to impede the wearers hearing.

The apron part 2 is dependant from the hood and might be simply an extension there- 5 of but is here shown as of a separate piece of material, secured with the binding 4 and of flaring shape. Its purpose is to extend about and cover the neck of the wearer. i

The pane member 3 is'of size to cover the face of the wearer and preferably shaped correspondingly' with the opening in the hood, with a notched part 5 adjacent the hood to fit the neck of the wearer. For economy in manufacture it may be an integral extension '60 of the apron as indicated in Fig. 1. The pane is provided with a fastener 6 at the free end of its neck part, cooperative with a fastener 6a located at the front of the hood where the latter is joined by the apron, at the end of the latter opposite that end to which the pane 3 is permanently secured. A fastener 7 is provided on the extremity of the pane cooperative with a fastener 7a located at the top of the hood opening.

Thus, when the device shown in Fig. 1 is to be used, its hood part is placed over the head of the wearer, the pane part 3 brought around in front, and the fasteners 6, 60 secured together, the pane part 3 being depend out upon the chest of the wearer as a bib, and as shown in Fig. 3. The pane part 3 is next lifted over the face and the fasteners 7, 7a secured together.

The entire head of the wearer is now covered, yet the wearer has visibility through the pane 3 and ample ventilation at the sides thereof as shown in Fig. 2. A garment now put on by way of the wearers head will not disturb eitherv the coifl'ure or cosmetic makeup of the wearer, nor will the garment be soiled by the latter. If the garment be one being tried on as in a store in contemplaton of its purchase, the pane part 3 may now be dropped by separation of the fast-enthe neck of said wearer, a transparent pane member associated with said hood to be removably supported thereby to cover the face of said wearer, and means for sup orting said pane member disposed as a bi upon the chest of said wearer.

2. In a device of the class described, a hood adapted tobe disposed upon the head of a wearer to protect the coiffure thereof, an apron part dependant therefrom about the neck part thereof to cover the neck of said wearer, a transparent pane member associated with said apron to form a continuation thereof about said neck, saidpane member and means for removably securing said pane member with said hood to be supported thereby in face covering position.

being adapted to cover the face of said wearer,

transparent said hood to selectively disposed as a bib upon the chest of said wearer or as a mask before the face of said wearer, said pane member being permanently associated with said hood at one side of the latter and detachably secured with said hood at the opposite side and at the to thereof.

In testimony whereof hereby aflix my signature. i Y EDNA IONE ABBOTT- an apron part dependant therefrom to cover pine member associated with 3. In a device of the class described, a hood adapted to be disposed upon the head of a apron part dependant therefrom about the neck part thereof to cover the neck of said wearer, a transparent pane member associ ated with an end of said apron to form a 40 continuation thereof about said neck, means for removably securing the opposite end of said pane member with the opposite end of said apron member to completely encircle said neck, said pane member being adapted to cover the face of said wearer, means for removably securing said pane member with said hoodvto be supported thereby in face covering position, whereby the wearer may don or remove a garment by way of the head without disturbing the wearers cosmetic makeup or soiling the neck part of said garment thereby, and said pane member may be withdrawn from the face and disposed upon the chest of said' wearer as a bib;

4. In a device of the class described, a hood adapted to be disposed upon the head of a wearer to protect the coiifure thereof, a transparent pane member associated with said' hood, and means for enabling said pane memher to be selectively disposed as a bib upon ,the chest of said wearer or as 'a mask before the face of said wearer.

5 In a device of the class described, a hood adapted to be disposed upon the head of a wearer to protect the coifiure thereof, and a wearer to protect the coifi'ure thereof, an 

